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From Screen to Battlefield: Constructing the Image of the Enemy on Russian Television
As recently as early 2014, 66% of Russians had a positive attitude toward Ukraine and Ukrainians, but within a year, Kremlin propaganda...
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Exposing and analysing Russia’s FIMI operations
On March 19, the EU HRVP Kaja Kallas presented the 3rd EEAS Report(opens in a new tab) on Foreign Information Manipulation and...
May 21
A glossary: who is who in the FIMI zoo?
The 3rd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) Threats offers a wealth of insights into information...
May 15
Bosnia: Moscow’s Second Front in Europe
The Kremlin is playing games behind the scenes in the Balkans, presenting the West with a challenge and an opportunity. Source:...
May 13
Rewriting history: the myth of Russia’s invincibility
As the world commemorates 80 years since the end of World War II, the most devastating global conflict the world had ever seen, the...
May 12
The myth that won’t die: blaming NATO for Russia’s war
In the murky landscape of disinformation, few narratives have proven as stubbornly persistent as the claim that NATO expansion provoked...
May 7
In Russia’s FIMI laboratory: test case, Moldova
Last year’s combination of a presidential election and an EU referendum offered Russia an opportunity it could not afford to ignore, as...
Apr 28
Enter the galaxy: a network analysis of influence operations
Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations are a complex and multi-faceted challenge which, as evidenced by...
Apr 16
Russian spies as disinformation actors
For years, one of the biggest obsessions of pro-Kremlin disinformation peddlers has been convincing their audiences that any and all...
Apr 4
Behind the curtain: a novel analytical approach to FIMI exposure
The European External Action Service (EEAS) has released its third report on foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI)...
Mar 28
Why Russia has been trying to take Crimea for centuries: myths and true facts about the peninsula
The information component has long been an integral part of modern conflicts. Ukraine has always been the target of Russia’s massive...
Mar 20
What we have learnt about FIMI after three years of full-scale war in Ukraine
By Mykola Balaban and Serhii Zhukov The modern level of economic, political, and informational globalisation offers vast opportunities...
Mar 19
Schadenfreude over the abyss
Pro-Kremlin disinformation operators have tried to smear, delegitimise and humiliate Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy since his...
Mar 12
The end of transit: Russian propaganda in search of new ways for Russian gas
The Ukrainian-Russian agreement on the transit of Russian gas to European countries expired on January 1, 2025. This step severed the...
Mar 5
North Korea Fighting Against Ukraine: How and Why Russian Propaganda Denies It
Since the full-scale invasion, discussions have occasionally arisen about the so-called “Korean scenario” for Ukraine. In 2022, “...
Mar 4
Why is the Kremlin so hung up on smearing Zelenskyy?
According to the Kremlin: A drug addict, a dictator and a puppet, oligarch, collector of Nazi memorabilia and a Nazi himself, an agent...
Feb 27
Paper bear: the myth of Russian invincibility is blackmail for negotiations
The Kremlin’s flirtation with the idea of Russia’s invincibility started way before the recent heated Munich Security Conference . In...
Feb 24
The Kremlin’s energy myths melt away
The colder it gets, the more desperate pro-Kremlin disinformation becomes. This winter, the usual scare stories about Europe’s supposed...
Feb 20
Why Russia wants you to doubt Zelensky & how it helps their war
The Kremlin’s propagandists began to “promote” a new narrative targeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and depicting him as a...
Feb 17
Nothing new from the east
Ahead of the German federal elections later this month, pro-Kremlin outlets employ the usual manipulative narratives including tropes...
Feb 11
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